Jar with eight lugs, incised and stamped decoration

Object Details

• Description

  Jar of ovoid form with angular shoulder, tall neck, flared mouth and flatten rim, slightly splayed foot and recessed base with a circular mark. Eight grooved loop handles on shoulder.

  Clay: buff-grey stoneware.

  Glaze: caramel brown, low gloss, transparent; falls short of foot.

  Decoration: a row of stamped flower motifs alternate with loop handles on shoulder, right above a band of incised leafy scroll. Below this band is a row of stamped cloud collars. Two pairs of incised upright dragon confronting a flaming pearl in alternate with a lotus spray and a flower spray on body.

• Provenance

  From circa 1972-1975 to 2005

  Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]

  From 2005

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 2005

  Notes:

  [1] Object file.

  This object was collected in Vietnam between 1972 or 1973 and 1975, while Osborne and Gratia Hauge were living in Saigon. The major sources were dealers in Saigon.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia (April 1, 2007 to December 4, 2011)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge ((1914-2004) and (1907-2000))

  Victor and Takako Hauge ((1919-2013) and (1923-2015))

• Origin

  Song Be province or Guangdong province, Southern Vietnam or China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1700s, 1930s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako, Hauge, Osborne and Gratia

• Place

  Vietnam, China, Guangdong province, Song Be province

• Topic

  Art, Hauge collection, Stoneware, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Brown and black glaze, Flowers, Lotus, Dragon

• Culture

  Chinese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)